The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, July 20, 1937, Page 4

THE DAILY, ALASKA Daily Alaska E mpire ROBERT W. BENDER - - Editor and Manager Published _evers evening except S v by the EMPIRE PRINTING COMPANY at Second and Main Streets, Juneau, Alasks. Butored In the Post Office In Juneau Second Class | vancement and happiness -than Guglielmo Marconi, Modern radio will remain a living” monument to his scientific achievement, Riots and Relief (New York Times) IRE; TUESDAY, JULY 20, 1937 e + 20 Years Ago From The Empire HAPPY — _BIRTHDAY 1 v The Empire extends congratula- tions and best wishes today, their| birthday anniversary, to the follow- P ing* Horosco pe “Fha stars incline but do not compel” JULY 20, 1917 | Nothing could more foreibly illustrate some of the defects and dangers of our Federal relief policy than | the WPA riots. Those riots have followed the begin- ning of an attempt to reduce fhe number of persons on the WPA rolls from about 2,000,000 to slightly less than 1,700,000, which Mr. Hopkins estimates to be the total number that his, administration can provide for under the appropriation granted for the fiscal year that has just begun. The effort to start these reduc- | tions in New York City has been followed by some astonishing “denyonstrations.’. Six Hundred sit-dewn strikers held the local administrative officer of ithe _|Federal Arts; Project captive for fiftéen hours until he agre¢d td yield to their demands. Five hundred pickets tried(to battle their way thréugh police lines to rescue 126'“stand-up” strikeks who were being taken to a police station for booking ceharges of disorderly conduct. Thirty-seven &¢hool teachers were arrested after they had brcken into the administrative offices of the WPA, according to: the police, and smashed: desks and ‘typewritersii'. Other. discharged WPA ‘ywmkvrs have made assaults on project offices, and in one case attempted to seize and destroy the time cards, employment records and other data on all WPA | employees. | | It is instructive to contrast this record with the theory of the WPA. Its purpose was to give “work relief” to those temporarily idle because of the de- | pression. |admittedly much more expensive than direct relief, | |it was better for {he morale of the persons concerned. matter SUBSCRIPTION RATES. fer in Jupeau and Douglas for §1.25 per month. at the following rates $1200; six months, in advance, $6.00; arr er & favor ¥ they will promptly notify are or irregularity in the de- livery of their one: 374, Ty News Office, 602; Business Office. MEMSER The Associated Presy republication of & ASSOCIATED PRESS. led to the use for to it or not the local news ALASKA CIRCULATION GUARANTEED TO BE LARGER THAN THAT OF ANY OTHER PUBLICATION JULY 20 N. Lester Troast G. B. Rice Henry Olsen Thelma Rodinsky Mrs. T. Jacobson | L DAILY LESSONS IN'ENGLISH™® By W. L. Gordon — e Ll ‘1and, In Washington, D. C,, in the Sen- ate Office Building, the drawing be- gan for the drafting of the United States Army. The first number drawn was 258, and every man in the United States bearing that num- ber was selected. L. D. Henderson, superintendent of | Territorial Schools, who had been attending a meeting of the Nation- al. Educational Association in Port- left Seattle on the Victoria |for Nome. Mrs. Guy McNaughton and son ‘Words Often Misused: Do nin‘n'y “Charles wént back on his"'prom- | i ,Say, ‘Charles failed to keep v fs prémise.” Pronounce in-sen-di-ari, all i’s as in it, a as in day, accent sécond | syllable. ! Often Misspelled: Anchor. Ob- serve the chor, pronounced ker. | Synonyms: - Uneasy, uncum[ort-: Word Study: “Use a word three | times and it is yours.” Let u$ in-' crease our vocabulary by mastering | The expectation was that the Federal jobs would be | kept by those who held them only until private em- ployment became available. We found, instead, that most of those who once get on the WPA rolls want | |to stay there. This is only natural. The hours are s emanating from the |commonly very short and the type and conditions or; Japanese fishing in Bristol Bay and Alasken waters|WOrk often pleasant, while the pay does not compare | unfavorably with what many of those on the rolls| It seems t0 be wouid be paid in private’ employment. h Under these conditions the incentive to look for| a job in private industry becomes very slight. Indeed, |the average person on relief work 'would probably tions between the government of the United States |, ¢ pe tempted by anything but an unusually: good | and that of Japan. |private job with a strong prospect cf permanence. E s N Comparative figures show that the theoretic ‘em- | H. B. Friele, chairman of the Executive Board of h)loyables" W WPAPwork'take private’ joba%at a.mmtiob | the Association of Pacific Fisheries, who has made}sluwer rate than’the theoretic “unemployables” on | one of the most thorough studies of the situation,|girect relief. Workers do not fall off the WPA rolls; voiced that sentiment while in Juneau yesterday. He they have to be dropped. ‘In practice the rolls have went further, and expressed it his belief that the been effectively reduced only by a series of purges. Japanese vessels which have been operating in the Many of the men and women on work relief look to be | Bristol Bay region were doing so without the sanction Suppcrtcd indefinitely by the Government. Being on | of their government and appeared to have been re- relief has become with them a sort of permanent called when reports reached Tokyo of the investiga- career, and any attempt to terminate or shorten that tion and the strong American protest. At least, the career is regarded with a sense of outrage. Because | A REASSURING NOTE IN THE FISHING CONTROVERSY Out of the maze of repo controversy comes one reassuring note the concensus of those conversant with the issue that a peaceable solution can be gained through negotia- one word each day. Today's word: Vivifying; enduring with life; quickening. “Admiration for one higher than himself is' a vivifying influence in men’s life.”—Carlyle. * LOOK and LEARN By A. C. Gordon | — 1. How many times a s*ond does a housefly flap its wings. 2. Why was Kentucky “the dark and bloody ground™ 3. At 'what age’ did Tennysan write, “Crossing the Bar"? 4. of birds? i 5. How much do newspapers in lled Often Mispronounced: Incendiary. b |James were visiting at Chichagof. | sam Newsander, manager of one lof ‘the mining properties being de- veloped at Windham Bay, was at the Zynda Hotel. Clarence Geddes left on the Al-Ki to visit in the south. W. O. Carlson, of Auk Bay, mana- It was contended that, though this was [able, worried, disturbed, disquieted. ger of Carlson’s cannery there, was in Juneau to secure iaen to handle the big run of fish that had started there. Les Foreman arrived in Douglas from Chichagof for a visit with his family. E. Catlin, purser on the ferry Al- F. R. Kilbourn was taking the run until a successor to Catlin was se- lected. O. Eikland, driver for the Men- denhall Dairy, had taken charge of the Dairy station at the Bar, and George Danner was to be the driver of the delivery car in the future. J. F. Anderson, of Skagway, was Hotel. WEDNESDAY, JULY 21, 1937 Good and evil planetary aspects are active and conflicting today, ac- cording to astrology. The morning is auspicious for persons who exer-! cise authority. | Commercial enterprise is stimu- ‘lated by planetary influences through this configuration which |appears to presage beginnings of | |great enterprises under private con- trol. Between government projects zmd| |those launched by private capital scme fort of competition is fore-| cast, but it will not carry serious results, it is predicted. Although labor continues to be! Isubject to ill omens there is a good| |sign for constructive and ambitious| {enterprises in which engineers and' \builders are engaged. | With the spread of fame for the ;Un:led States great engineerlng‘ |feats will come a new peril to its icoast defenses, astrologers foretell.! Those who have read the horos-! cope of Senor Awana predict that! |the autumn will find the Spanish |loyalists in a position to promising good fortune. Jupiter in transit on his radical Sun appears to presage final victory. Owing to uncertainty regarding the exact birthdate of Haile Selassie | | ~———F 5 ma, resigned to leave for the south, strologers diifer regarding his fu- ture, but his is not possible. Young persons are warned against accidents today, aspects of which may stimulate a recklessness more daring than usual among boys and girls. ultimate restoration’ Persons whose birthdate it is have| | {the augury of a year of quict times in which desired accomplishments may be postponed. Illness of em- What branch of zoology treats a visitor in Juneau at the Gastineau Pployees will retard plans of certain ibusiness men and business women. Children born on this day prob- the United States spend flm‘,auy} Weather: highest, 51; lowest 48; ably will be painstaking, studious for paper? 3 ¥ rain. e s and reliable. Subjects of this sign usually win through intellectual at- suspected vessels left the fishing area Edward W. Allen, member of the International Fisheries Commission, in an article appearing in yes- terday's Empire pointed out that continuance of the supply of salmon for a food source is vitally important to Japan, a fish-eating nation, and that she can hardly afford to jeopardize that supply by ravaging the fish- ing banks which would bring about depletion. Other officials have voiced a similar sentiment. ., mission of experts to make an impartial study of | 52—. They feel that an amiable understanding can be reached between the two countries if negotiations are carried forward on fhe premise of fact. It is to gain those facts that the State Department, which naturally must conduct such negotiations as might follow, now has its representative, Leo Sturgeon, in:the troubled region. . There appears to be only two ways to settle the fishing problem as now presented. One, the unde- sireable, is by force. The other is by intelligent ne- gotiation based on economic fact. It.is reassuring that the later course is being pursued now before the situation gets out of control. WIRELESS KING PASSES The man who probably contributed more to wire- less communication than any other has completed his work. Death has brought an end to the remark- able career of Guglielmo Marconi, universally rec- ognized as the father of wireless or what is commonly known today as radio. Marconi was not actually the originator of the idea.; There were several earlier men who made some progress in developing this means of communication, but it was Marconi who was instru- mental in pushing in forward to become an important requisite in modern existence. Until Marconi, the Italian, came along little was thought of the possibility of using wireless telegraph for commercial purposes. The cable companies said they did not believe such a system would ever com- pete seriously with wires strung along the ocean bed. Yet when Marconi in 1907 announced he was ready to establish commercial wireless between America and Europe, there was a sharp drop in the cable shares on the London exchange. The courts of almost every country have had to pass on the Marconi system in connection with patent infringement suits, there being many such actions in the first 20 years after England granted the first patent in 1896. In 1914 Marconi won a suit against the “De Forest Wireless Telegraph Company of New York” and in 1914 scored a similar court victory against the Standard Oil Company and the De Forest Radiotelephone and Telegraph Company. The de Forest interests lost a third action in 1916 Some governments were hostile to the system also the most pronounced enemy being Germany. Through diplomatic channels that empire in 1903 called the first radio telegraph convention in Berlin and pro- posed that wireless should be limited to communica- tions between ships and from ships to shores. But English and Italian opposition quashed this. When Italy entered the world war Marconi was commissioned a lieutenant in the Italian army and sent on important military missions to England. In July 1916, he was promoted to captain “for exceptional services” and in September of that vear was trans- ferred to the navy with rank of commander. In 1917 he was a member of the commission which Italy sent to the United States and he rounded out his military-diplomatic career by sitting as a plenipo- tentiary in the peace conferences with Austria and Bulgaria in 1819, Honors were for several years showered upon him by governments, universities and scientific societies. topped by the Nobel prize in physics which he shared in 1909 with Prof. Braun. From the king of Italy he received the Knightship of the Crown of Italy, the order of the Grand Cross of Sts. Maurice and Lazarus and the Grand Cross of the Order of Victory. In the United States honorary degrees and medals were awarded him by Yale, Columbia and the univer- sities of Pennsylvania and Louisiana; the Franklin Institute, the American Institute of Electrical En- gineers, the American Society of Civil Engineers, the American Society of Mechanical Engineers and the American Institute of Mining Engineers Few men have contributed more to human ad- they regard their jobs as a vested interest, they are | willing in some cases to resort to lawless actions to‘ hold them. | Our relief system requires a thorough overhauling. Adequate provision must be made for those in need, but we cannot continue indefinitely a system that, in addition to putting an enormous drain on the Treas- ury, turns men and women into mentally permanent reliefers. Perhaps the first step toward effective re- | |form should be the appointment of a Government | the problem and to draft the outlines of a new program. | The World’s Next Highway Project Seattle Post-Intelligencer) ! Road builders have not been idle during the de- | pression. In the last eight years, according to a report | just published by the highways committee of the Auto- mobile Manufacturers’ Association, the world high- way mileage has increased from 6,582,000 to 9,900,000, | a gain of more than 50 percent. By using river boats for one 225-mile gap, it is |possible for a motorist to drive his car from Tangier, cpposite Gibraltar, to Capetown, in “darkest Africa,” 'approximately 12,000 miles, and most of the route is (open at all seasons of the year. | Ancient caravan trails used by conquering khans |centuries ago, in combination with improved modern | roads, connect most of the polyglot nations of Southern Asia, and the world’s most modern sleeping bus equipment is in regular service across the Geserts be- tween Damascus and Baghdad. { South America needs to lose only a few gaps in the trunk highway along its West Coast, from Panama |to its southernmost tip. ! A glaring blank space on the world’s road map | extends between Hazelton, B. C., and Alaska. | The report of the highways committee recalls (that the United States members of an international | |commission appointéd to study this project, in a |favorable report submitted to the President, recom- !mended that convergations be undertaken with the Canadian government to determine what practical arrangements might+be made for collaboration on the | project. What other nations could do, in years of depres- {sion, in Africa, Asia and South America, two xrn:ndlyS }neighbors should be able to duplicate, in North America, in better years. On this side of the international boundary, and in Alaska, public sentiment clearly is for the connéet: ing highway. It is probable that our Canadian neighbors are inclined to be favorably disposed, especially since such a road would give British Columbia access to its newly- annexed Yukon region. What is needed now sides of the line. The automobile manufacturers’ committee says: “The next decade is destined to mark an advance in highway communication surpassing anything which has ever occurred before.” Let's hope that the International Highway to Alaska is included in the next decade’s program. And let’s work to insure it! is official action on both ‘ A Cooling-Off Time (New York World-Telegramn) Out in Los Angeles 1ot very long ‘ago a trial was going on in the court of Judge Harry Holzer.. It was | a particularly ugly affair, marked by frequent out- bursts of passion from the District Attorney, defense | ‘('(J\ln.w! witnesses. But the judge was very wise, and | whenever onlei0f these wrangles broke out he rapped ‘Im' order, got out his watch and said:—"“We will now | have one minute of silence.” ; f ) When the minute was up- the’ trial. resumed in ajl |changed atmosphere. Passion spent, reason had re- |turned. Everybody had been given a time to cool off. | Some procedure like this must be written into | our laws governing labor-management relations. We | |have worked out such a routine under the Railway | Labor Act, in which there must be cooling-off penods; all along the mediation line, from the beginning of | the quarrel clear up to the last step of a Presidential fact-finding board. That's the main reason why there re so few strikes on the railroads. | If labor and capital were required to follow Judge | Holzer’s formula and cool off for a minute most strikes would be settled before they began, Model factories nowadays are fenced around with pickets.—Buffalo Courier-Express. { | 3 | | | Slogan for the Republican party® “Wake up: and live.'—Bpifalq C 66,11 tainments. Herbert Witherspoon, singer, was born on this day 1873. Others who have celebrated it as a birthday in- clude Dr. Joseph K. Barnes, sur- geon general under President Gar- P s WOMA'S T It was the scene of manyj bat- tles with the Indians. ] g § F““"d "l Rlve field, 1817; David Hunter, cne- (time general in the United States 3. At the age of 81; it was Sung' for the first time at his own funeral PORTLAND, Oregon, July 20. — Army, 1302. (Copyright, 1937) 4. Ornithology. " | D ANSWERS 1 2. 5. The estimate is $160,000,000. MODERN ETIQUETTE By Roberta Vee -~ The armless and headless torso, pos- sibly that of a woman slain and dis- membered about a year ago, has Walter Spangler of Spring Grove, been found in a small river near Pa. disclocated his jaw by yawn- St. Helens. ing. >, — - “Alaska” by Lester D. Henderson. . ’ & Pay’n Takit PHONES 92 or 3% Free Delivery Fresh Meats, Groceries, Liquors, Wines and Beer We Sell for LESS Because We Sell for CASH Leader Dept. Store George Brothers P 2 Q. What does it indicate when a man, in company, is always thinking | about himself, his hands, his feet, his tie, or rearranging the folds ori his coat? | D R U G s A. This is nothing but seu-con-‘; sciousness, and the only way to ov-| ercome it is to forget.one’s self absolutely, centering one's interest | entirely upon the other persons | present. | Q. To what ten per cent when dining pensive place? A. To a bill that is more thz\n} three dollars. ! Q. How many persons should stand in a receiving line? A. Seldom more than four, often less. P e e | Guy Smith PUROLA REMEDIES PRESCRIPTIONS CARE- FULLY COMPOUNDED Front Street Next Coliseum PHONE 97—Free Delivery | sized bill does the; tipping rule apply, in some rather ex- “Tomorrow’s Styles 300 Reams . 300 Bati:: Jrom *2,50 8 weial Waerly Kates SKANS LIK GREEN TOP CABS {. ' PHONE 678 1} l Juneau’s Own Store Inquiry Made For Missing ? Adjutant George Tanner, in charge of the Juneau branch of the Sal- vation Army, has received requests for information regarding the fol- lowing persons: Robert Emry—35 years of age, 6 feet in height, weighs 150 pounds, has a gray spot of hair over his right ear, and the first joint of his index finger on .his right hand is missing. Three years ago he was at Oatman, Arizona, where he was working in the copper mines. At that time he said he was coming to Alaska; Birger Maurita Erikson — L beard from in 1932. He is 32 yeers old, born in Norrkoping, Sweden. Is a fisherman by trade. Mother in old land is anxious about him. SRR VR NOTICE Meeting of Women of the Moose, Wednesday night at 8 o'clock, LO.OF. Hall. Past Regent’s Night. GERTIE OLSEN, Recorder. adv. — ‘ilaska” by Lester D. Henderson, Money Saved is . Money Earned EARN AT HOLLYWOOD SHOE SHOP ' 174 Fronklin st. 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SHEPARD & SON Telephone 409 B. M. Behrends Bank Bldg. Juneau INSURANCE Allen Shattuck Established 1898 PHONE 15 e | Phone 182 BOOKKEEPING SERVICE y TRAINED ACCOUNTANTS Tax and System Service JAMES C. COOPER COMPANY CERTIFIED PUBLIC ACCOUNTANTS Juneau, Alaska Goldstein Bldg.